BS: Things Mom used to say

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Acorn4
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 11:36 AM

!I don't know who's worse, you or your father?"

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 11:46 AM

I don't know that version but, in anger, things like "your just like your father" have been known...

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 12:41 PM

She could be a bit unkind about anyone with a physical defect. Anyone with one leg or in a wheelchair was a cripple, anyone with bandy legs "couldn't stop a pig in an entry" and anyone with not quite straight eyes had "one eye on t'pot and t'other up chimney." Me ould gran didn't like swearing in front of us kids so "bloody 'ell" became "blood and stomach pills."

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 12:50 PM

Not one of mum's but I'm reminded of Singing Together at this point.

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 12:54 PM

Gosh, I didn't know it was in a song! Cheers for that, Jon.

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 01:32 PM

When I (or one of my brothers) was climbing a tree/wall/whatever:

"If you fall and break your leg don't come running to me."

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 02:00 PM

Only fall one I remember was one as far as I know she/they composed for me when I fell out of a pear tree and needed stitches. I can't remember all of it but as an attempt:

One day I climbed upon a tree
I slipped and fell and cut my knee
The cut was deep and full of blood
I ran down the garden, fell in the mud.
It really hurt, it was agony.
I wish I'd never cut my knee.

While I have no head for heights, she was generally easy going about such things and 2 brothers became very keen rock climbers.

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 08:24 PM

if I told you, you would be sorry you asked.

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: ragdall
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 03:54 AM

My mom taught me to set the table before the men came home from work because, if they saw the table was ready, they'd patiently wait for the food to appear.

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 04:11 AM

I was always roped in to help with the laundry. No washing machines in those days, just a washboard, scrubbing brush, some Lux soap flakes/washing soda and a mangle.
Mother used to hand me a pile of knickers and give the order, "Scrub the gussets! Always scrub the gussets!"

I still hear her saying that as I load our Zanussi washing machine and merely press a button. How I bless that machine every blooming time!

Another one - not my mother but her sister, my Irish Auntie Lil. She was a drama tutor in a technical college (which she always called the Testicle College!) She lived, ate and slept The Stage and The Theatre.
When I went to stay with her, every time I bounced into a room she'd bellow,
"Oooh! Enter the fairies dancing and singing!"

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Mo the caller
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 08:12 AM

From: Roger the Skiffler - PM
Date: 14 Feb 19 - 04:05 PM

I want doesn't get
RtS

This was the version one of my schoolfriends had
Those that ask don't get
Those that don't ask, don't want

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Mo the caller
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 08:19 AM

Although my father worked as a hospital cook and we weren't well off my mother aspired to be better than 'working class'. Both she and my father had the intelligence but not the opportunities for education. We went to a church full of well off professional people.
So it was a bit of a shock to my well brought up ears when she came out with things like

"If you can't be good, be careful"

"Winter draws on
Winter draws onBe sure you've got your flanelette
Winter drawers on"

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: leeneia
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 12:49 PM

I think my dad used to say "If you can't be good be careful." too

I like that quip about the drawers. It's funnier if you realize that many British people put an unconscious R at the end words that end in a vowel, such as 'draw'.

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: olddude
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 07:15 PM

You could go blind!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Mo the caller
Date: 20 Feb 19 - 04:30 PM

I don't know about adding an r. We certainly drop the er, so pronounce drawers as draws.

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Feb 19 - 07:25 PM

I know of And the other up the chimney as a lyric, cool that someone actually said it...

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 08:55 AM

Give it a lick and a promise

Any clean up job short of a complete proper clean up.

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: olddude
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 12:20 PM

My dad would say put a helmet on the soldier if you are going out on a date

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Michael
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 02:24 PM

Olddude; Was that in case you got more than 'a lick and a promise'?

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 03:43 PM

When I left home to go off to University, my father said, "Study hard" and my mother told me, "Keep your hand on your ha'penny".

Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say
From: Jos
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 05:18 PM

My mother said that the secret of a happy marriage was for both partners to reckon on two-thirds giving and one-third taking.

Pity the person I married wasn't listening (we divorced 40 years go).